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Re: error starting cron on nt4
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: error starting cron on nt4
- From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:15:56 +0200
- References: <200107111358.NAA01671@mdve.oss.dk>
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:58:18PM +0000, Erik Bak-Mikkelsen wrote:
> Hi cygwinners,
> please, I have a problem in starting cron on an nt4.0.
> I have installed the cron service using the srvany from the res.kit.
> However, when I from a bash or cmd shell issue the command:
> myuser@myserver /bin$ net start cron
>
> I get the following error:
> The service is not responding to the control function.
>
> More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2186.
>
> At the same time the following entry is generated in the EventLog:
> The cron service failed to start due to the following error:
> The service did not respond to the start or control request in a
> timely fashion.
Install it using cygrunsrv instead of srvany:
cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e "CYGWIN=<your settings>"
Help for cygrunsrv is given by
cygrunsrv --help
or by reading /usr/doc/Cygwin/cygrunsrv.README
Corinna
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